{"product_id":"who-is-black-9780271021720","title":"Who is Black","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis text aims to help students understand America's history of miscegenation and the role the \"one-drop rule\" has played in it. The author examines challenges to the one-drop rule, including the multiracial identity movement and the census classification of racial groups.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“This is a very well-written book that communicates complex ideas with clarity and interest. It is rare, in my experience, for an academic book written by a social scientist to be as interesting and exciting as a piece of fiction. This book is hard to put down because Davis’s story of how the United States as a nation came to define who is black reads like a mystery novel in which every historical event provides one more clue to the final murder of a people.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Aida Hurtado \u003ci\u003eAmerican Journal of Sociology\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Davis has given us a brilliant and informative history of the fateful policy commonly called the rule of hypodescent (the ‘one-drop’ rule) and the impact it has had psychologically, socially, economically, and politically on African-American history. Davis’s book is the most recent in the series of works written on this topic, but is by far the most thorough and insightful.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—G. Reginald Daniel \u003ci\u003eContemporary Sociology\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“This is an eye-opening appraisal of an issue often taken for granted in America.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pennsylvania State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49524688355671,"sku":"9780271021720","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780271021720.jpg?v=1731857755","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/who-is-black-9780271021720","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}